68 S e cti o n One – General • call on the police to record complaints and incidences police. In order to achieve this, two outcomes were of racially motivated crime, and for education identified: building police capability and capacity to providers, local government and other stakeholders engage with ethnic communities and implementing to provide accessible reporting systems for racial culturally appropriate strategies with communities to harassment and discrimination, including web-based increase their safety, and prevent and reduce crime, road systems trauma and victimisation. 25 The foundation strategy • encourage the provision of reliable and accessible is under review. In building on its first ethnic strategy, web-based information to prospective international the police are actively considering priorities in relation students, including about their human rights and the to ethnic communities that will achieve their desired support available outcomes for all New Zealanders of ‘confident, safe and • monitor progress in addressing the human rights of international students and support student organisations in their advocacy and support for an improved experience for international students in Australia and New Zealand • increase public awareness of the rights of international students; their contribution to the Australian and New Zealand economies and societies; and the importance of speaking out when they witness instances of harassment, discrimination and abuse. In New Zealand, a coalition of Christchurch organisations, including tertiary institutions, the police, the Human Rights Commission and Ngäi Tahu, established the ‘Report secure communities’ and ‘less actual crime and road trauma, [and] fewer victims’.  26 In addition to the strategy, police have undertaken a range of initiatives to improve their responsiveness to ethnic communities and increase the number of ethnic police officers. Some of these include: • tailoring police recruitment and marketing strategies in response to changing New Zealand demographics to specifically target Mäori, Pacific and Asian people and recruit a more culturally diverse and responsive workforce • encouraging ethnic communities’ participation in It!’ website in August 2008. 24 The site provides interna- community safety initiatives and developing formal tional students with information on racial harassment and partnerships to encourage their input into policing and a simple way to report it. In the first year, 2204 individuals to enable better understanding of crime and safety visited the site. In 2009, the coalition received 36 reports, issues 27 of which 26 requested follow-up action. Some reports • establishing Asian safety patrols in Auckland to involved serious physical assaults. provide greater police visibility and engagement with Police ethnic strategy communities, to reduce crime, victimisation and road The New Zealand Police have developed both national traumas and regional strategies for engagement with ethnic • establishing Asian-ethnic advisory boards in major communities. In 2004 the police developed a foundation districts to enable communities to engage directly with strategy for ‘Working Together with Ethnic Communities senior police Towards 2010’. The foundation strategy focussed on • sponsoring ethnic football tournaments and the Race reducing the fears of ethnic communities about being Unity speech awards with the aim of fostering positive targets of crime, and increasing their confidence in the race relations among youth and communities 24 ‘Report It!’. Accessible online at http://report-it.org.nz/ 25 New Zealand Police, Working Together with Ethnic Communities – Police Ethnic Strategy Towards 2010, pp 4–5. Accessed 6 May 2010 from https://admin.police.govt.nz/resources/2005/ethnic-strategy/index.html 26 New Zealand Police, Strategic Plan to 2010. Accessed 21 September from http://www.police.govt.nz/resources/2006/strategicplan-to-2010/index.html 27` Examples include MOUs with NZ Federation of Multicultural Councils and the Federation of Islamic Councils of New Zealand